Ivan the Terrible, Part I

Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944)

Иван Грозный

Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people. Sergei Eisenstein's final film, this is the first part of a three-part biopic of Tsar Ivan IV of Russia, which was never completed due to the producer's dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's attempts to use forbidden experimental filming techniques and excessive cost overruns. The second part was completed but not released for a decade after Eisenstein's death and a change of heart in the USSR government toward his work; the third part was only in its earliest stage of filming when shooting was stopped altogether.

Date of release
1944-11-11
TMDB
7.3 / 10 (239)
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
Drama, History
Director
Sergei Eisenstein

Casting

  • Nikolai Cherkasov — Czar Ivan IV
  • Lyudmila Tselikovskaya — Czarina Anastasia Romanovna
  • Serafima Birman — Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya
  • Mikhail Nazvanov — Prince Andrei Kurbsky
  • Mikhail Zharov — Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov
  • Amvrosii Buchma — Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov
  • Mikhail Kuznetsov — Fyodor Basmanov
  • Pavel Kadochnikov — Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky
  • Andrei Abrikosov — Boyar Fyodor Kolychev
  • Alexander Mgebrov — Novgorod's Archbishop Pimen
  • Maxim Mikhaylov — Archdeacon
  • Vladimir Balashov — Piotr Volynetz

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